WHAT'S INSIDE YOU

You cannot run
You cannot hide
It is with you all the time

The best friend you have
Or the most intimate foe
It knows all that you are
And where you wish to go

The ups and downs of life
It experiences with you
It knows all you hold true
It can help
Or wantonly destroy you

The mirror is its friend
It looks hauntingly back at you
Wanting to be released
But constrained by you

The life you live is its arena
It never goes far
But is hard to know
It can be buried so deep
It can prevent peaceful sleep

It rarely goes on show
It can be sought out
And delved into
It simmers in psychoses
And engulfs the true you

Its purpose is sketchy
It can cause annoyance aplenty
Its actions may even be petty

It has no existence without you
It breaths and nourishes itself through you
It can often control you

Peace comes from understanding it
Calm from appeasing it
Well-being from managing it